Lawmakers took up Senate File 4612, the Health & Human Services omnibus, adopting a series of technical and substantive amendments to stabilize hospitals (including a $150 million HCMC stabilization grant), revise childcare licensing rules and add reporting and accountability language for recipients of stabilization funding.

The committee moved multiple labor and employment bills—AB 14 39 (study of labor standards for PERS/STRS projects), AB 16 97 (one-year delay to AB 6 92), AB 18 03 (workplace anti-hate training), AB 21 20 (selective certification for LAUSD), AB 22 92 (ban administrative fees for SDI/PFL forms), and AB 11 98 (prevailing-wage timing reform)—sending them on to subsequent committees or placing them on call.

Senate Bill 1194 would require written quota disclosures for warehouse workers, ban quotas that force missed meal/rest/bathroom breaks or violate safety laws, and create reporting and retaliation presumptions; the Department of Labor warned it lacks authority for some enforcement and estimated a $200,000–$300,000 fiscal impact. The committee took testimony but did not vote.

A Senate of Virginia subcommittee met in Richmond and reported or referred 56 bills, sending several energy, health-insurance and workforce measures to Finance while placing four bills "by for the day." The committee approved numerous conforming actions and adopted several substitutes and line amendments.